Custom Public API
The Challenge
WellWiki provides data for over 4.3 million oil and gas wells throughout North America. Its goal is to provide to the public a comprehensive database tracking production and environmental data, news, and history on the estimated 5.8 million wells drilled in North America. Regulation for oil and gas development is managed primarily by the state or province. The challenge for WellWiki is that the well data are produced and stored individually by jurisdiction, containing their own reporting standards and data formats.
The current system was hosted on premises on University infrastructure.
Our Solution
MERAK created a RESTful API service to allow interested parties to query and consume Well data to use for their own purposes. Our project is meant to create a starting point for the API which can eventually expand to serve the rest of the data and meet the needs of its end users. All services are hosted in Azure to make use of fast and easy API development and deployment, as well as taking advantage of the included security features to allow us to focus our time spent on solving their needs.
Last Updated: June 25, 2025